A once-sprawling 3,500-square-metre Bryanston home now stands stripped, vandalised and carved into a maze of illegally built structures, and the owners are fighting to reclaim it.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said the visit represented "a historic moment for rebuilding trust, with the support of the international community for the Syrian people".
The pipe bombs placed outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Republican National Committee (RNC) offices in Washington in the evening of January 5 failed to detonate.